I just found the ep128emu. Very nice. Takes me back to the old days. Back then I both had a 64 a 128, floppydrive, spectrum emulator (both the a-studio version and the beta version of the Box-Soft version - witch was better), and lots of software. Sadly I sold it way back.

ep128emu looks nice. I am running the X64 linux version on my Suse 10.2 box.
I have a questions thou. How do I make diskimages?
I can access my real drive with no problem and also make tape images. But diskimages would be a bit easier.

There are some disk images included with the emulator in disk.zip. These can be mounted as a loop device on Linux, for example:
mount floppy_a /mnt/floppy -t msdos -o loop
Make sure however that the disk image is not mounted while you have it also opened in the emulator.

To create new floppy images instead of using those in disk.zip, you can for example use the mtools package. First, create an empty file with the desired size:
dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440
This can be formatted with 'mformat', but you need to add a line like this to /etc/mtools.conf first:
drive x: file="floppy.img" mformat_only
Then run 'mformat':
mformat -t 80 -h 2 -n 18 -v EP_FLOPPY x:
Change the value for -n to 9 when formatting a 720k disk image. EP_FLOPPY can be replaced with any volume label to be used.

When I tell it to use "/dev/fd/0" I get "wd177x cannot determine size of disk image"

Did you really intend to use /dev/fd/0 ? On my machine this device does not seem to have much to do with floppy drives. It is probably best to use devices like /dev/fd0u720 etc. (with the correct size selected), or, if the floppy is a standard 1.44MB one, /dev/fd0. Also, make sure that the permissions are correct; I usually have to chmod the device, since by default normal users are not allowed to access it.

I may try implementing mouse emulation, but is there some hardware information available ?

New version: 2.0.4 released.

IstvanV writes:
> least one unix platform, and may also have better emulation accuracy. However, compiling
> on SGI may still be problematic, but with some luck you could get the older version 1.6.1 to
> run (SDL and the GNU development tools are needed). The
> 2.x versions are more advanced, but have more dependencies, and would probably not work.

There do seem to be a fair number of depencies, but what the heck, I'll try anyway when I can
find the time. GNU/etc. tools are not a problem on SGIs, all the usual Linux freeware is available
via nekochan.net.

Thanks!

ian.